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JULYANAC 16, 2006 NDAPROUDLY SERVING TIMES LSA ANACONDA UP! and... Operation: Superman flies SHOE DROP into Anaconda MOTHER, SON TEAM BRINGS MUCH Page 12 NEEDED SHOES TO AREA CHILDREN Page 5 Vol. 3, Issue 28 4-11 FA >> NEWS >> QUALITY OF LIFE Soldiers volunteer time off to provide better cable service Photo by Sgt.Rachel Brune Staff Sgt. Sayoko Stevenson, civil affairs NCO, “We have extended AFN ... to over 4,600 rooms.” - Page 3 and Spc. Christopher McCuiston, combat medic, set up a pediatric wheelchair for Bishra Salman, 15, (in background) who suffers from a debilitat- ing degenerative disease. Soldiers deliver donated wheelchairs to Iraqi youth by Sgt. Rachel Brune 101st Sustainment Brigade PAO ZIHALILAH, Iraq – Aziz showed up at the Q-West Base Complex Civilian-Military Operations Center with a wide grin and a story of need. The young boy told Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery Regiment and a team from the 403rd Civil Affairs Battalion about his family and siblings, five of whom suffer from a degenerative disease. As a result, Abdul Karim, Bishra, Mah- moud, Ra’ad and Raija Salman, each received a new set of wheels in the form of pediatric wheelchairs donated by charitable organiza- tions in the United States. The Soldiers deliv- ered the chairs to the family June 29 here. Wheelchairs for Iraqi Kids and ROC Wheels provided the 12 pediatric wheelchairs, which the 4-11th Counter Rocket Patrol, med- ics from the battalion aid station, and the 403rd delivered to the siblings, as well as to another disabled 19-year-old in the neighboring town of Ujbah. photo by Spc. Spencer Case Sgt. 1st Class Brad Burgess makes an attempt on the first “hole” of a temporary Frisbee Golf course at Logistical SupportArea Anaconda, July 4. see Wheels, Page 4 “I am an American Soldier.” I am Spc. Nicholas D. Wood, from Manteca, Calif. Convoy Security >> C Company, 1st Bn., 377th FA PAGE 2 ANACONDA TIMES JULY 16, 2006 You need to be treated by Soldiers find baby on patrol the VA for what? by Pfc. Paul J. Harris by Lt. Col. Jonathan Allen 3rd HBCT, 4th ID PAO Special to the Anaconda Times BALAD, Iraq – A U.S. Army “Pfc. Serve D. Inoif” has returned to the patrol from the 4th Infantry Division United States and is seeking treatment for a rescued an abandoned Iraqi infant sprained ankle that he got while serving in from the side of the road near Lo- Iraq. But the Veterans Affairs patient admin- gistical Support Area Anaconda last istrator looks through the medical file and month. there is nothing about it. Staff Sgt. Donald White was lead- Inoif tells them he twisted his ankle while ing his patrol from Battery B, 3rd dismounting from an armored Humvee. Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, 3rd After talking with the patient administra- Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th In- tor, he remembered that his commander gave fantry Division, on June 9 when they him a form: a Department of the Army Form came across a box on the roadside. 2173, to take to the Troop Medical Clinic to White said he initially thought it have the medical staff fill out. to be an improvised explosive device Inoif never returned the form to his com- until he heard crying coming from the mander and threw it away with the attached box. White looked for wires protrud- medical documents. ing from the box and made sure it was The patient administrator tells him that not booby trapped. there is no documentation that he got his med- “I ran as fast as I could, snatched ical condition from service in Iraq. He can go the box off the ground and kept on to the nearest civilian hospital for treatment, running,” he said. “Thankfully noth- but he’ll have to pay the costs himself. ing blew up.” You don’t want to be in the above situ- The child’s skin was literally ation. Some units are handing the form out hanging off and they could see it was with the sick call slip to Soldiers heading to massively dehydrated and malnour- the TMC for treatment. ished. Spc. John Sullivan, healthcare So when you are injured or sick and you specialist, Headquarters and Head- are going to the TMC or military hospital for quarters Battery, 3rd Bn., 29th FA, treatment of any conditions that may recur in evaluated the child and told Smith the future, make sure you are getting a DA they needed to get him to a hospital 2173 filled out by the medical staff. right away. Unit members jumped You should then attach any medical docu- into the trucks and drove as fast as ments and any other applicable documents they could. and return them to your commander. This is As the convoy drove as fast as known as a Line of Duty packet. it could to Balad Air Base hospital, For medical conditions that warrant care Sullivan turned the air conditioning in the future, this documentation is extremely vents in the baby’s direction so the Maj. Jase Dean, physician, 332nd Expeditionary Medical Operations Group from Lackland Air Force Base, San important to have completed and turned in. Antonio, Texas, holds a baby he treated for dehydration at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The baby was found aban- air would cool the infant. doned on the side of the road near Logistical support Area Anaconda by a patrol from Battery B, 3rd Battal- According to Col. Martin Christensen, the 3rd Sullivan said he was nervous be- ion, 29th Field Artillery, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Task Force Band of Brothers. COSCOM surgeon, “These documents allow cause he never had to professionally (Photo courtesy of Photo by Senior Airman Christine Noldee) them to go get continued follow-up medical treat a sick child before. “[He] did not replenish lost fluids. The infant eventually re- June 19. The mother of the child told Iraqi care for the remainder of their life from the cry at all in the vehicle, but his eyes rolled in gained its strength and was in stable enough police she left the child in her daughter’s VA.” the back of his head, and I thought, ‘Oh my condition to be released to the care of the care. The daughter was carrying the infant on He and his staff review the LOD Packet goodness, he is starting to die on me.’” Iraqi hospital in Balad. the road near LSA Anaconda when she was for 3rd Corps Support Command Soldiers to The hospital staff was already waiting for White credits the success of the rescue to chased by wild dogs and left the baby so she ensure the packet is complete. the Pacesetter patrol when the vehicles pulled the members of his Blue Delta patrol, not just could run faster, according to reports given to Copies are then distributed to the Official up. The Air Force medical staff treated the himself and Sullivan. Capt. Lance Awbrey, commander, B Battery, Records Department, the unit file, and the child by putting a feeding tube into him to The baby was reunited with its mother on 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery. Soldier gets a copy of the complete packet. 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Kevin McSwain Spc. Amanda Solitario Defense or Operation Iraqi Freedom. 3rd COSCOM Commanding General Anaconda Times is a command information newspa- Brig. Gen. Rebecca S. Halstead Spc. Mary Ferguson per in accordance with Army Regulation 360-1. Spc. David Chapman Chief of the Anaconda Consolidated Press Center Spc. Alexandra Hemmerly-Brown Anaconda Times is published weekly by the Stars Lt. Col. Brian McNerney JULY 16, 2006 ANACONDA TIMES PAGE 3 Units unite for a good cause -- cable by Spc. KaRonda Fleming with the project,” he said. “We have extended AFN to approximately 65 housing pods, including over Anaconda Times Staff Writer 4,600 rooms since Dec. 1.” There are some servicemembers who don’t just The project allows the units living in the hous- defend freedom, they preserve their right to cable ing areas to install the cable. Once identified, the television. servicemembers attend a one hour training class. In December, the 35th Area Support Group de- They are also provided with the design drawing termined that Armed Forces Network coverage in layout. LSA Anaconda’s housing areas needed to be im- “From the date that we break ground on the proved and drew together numerous units to help trench digging, to the date that we are finished make it happen. with the final quality control checks, to replacing Staff Sgt.